Easter · Eyd-e Pak

Culture of origin: Christian · Cultural

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Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus on the third day after his crucifixion, and ends Lent, forty days of fasting, prayer and penance. Since the Council of Nicaea (325) it falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox. The Armenian Church follows that Nicene rule, and since it adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1923 it is one of the few Eastern churches to keep Easter on the same day as Catholics and Protestants.